Life Is a War
Intro
Verse 1
Life is a war,
and we fight its battles.
We bury and burn our dead.
We march on our orders
from a voice we never heard,
down a road that no one led.
Verse 2
We were born in the trenches,
handed a rifle and a name,
taught to hold the line
before we knew what a line was,
and the ones who taught us
had been taught the same.
Chorus
And the fight is never over.
In whose name are we fighting?
For what cause?
The generals are ghosts,
and the flags have all faded,
and nobody remembers what it was.
Are all living things doomed
to fight forever?
Verse 3
I fought my own body.
I fought the men with the forms.
I fought for my children
and the right to my name,
and every truce was only
a pause between storms.
Chorus
And the fight is never over.
In whose name are we fighting?
For what cause?
The generals are ghosts,
and the flags have all faded,
and nobody remembers what it was.
Are all living things doomed
to fight forever?
Bridge
But the trees in the forest
fight each other for the sun,
and under the ground, in the dark,
their roots are holding on,
passing what they have
to the ones who have none.
Maybe the war's just the half we can see.
Final Chorus
And the fight is never over,
but I know whose name I'm fighting in now:
the one beside me,
the ones I carry,
the ones who'll come after somehow.
Are all living things doomed
to fight forever?
Maybe.
But not alone.
Outro
Life is a war.
We fight its battles.
We carry each other home.